Player Profile… Joe Hachem 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion
“It still has not hit home,” World Series of Poker Champion Joe Hachem says about this business of becoming an instant celebrity.
One minute he’s a reasonably successful but unknown Australian, a former chiropractor who fancied himself a pretty good gambler.
And then within a matter of days, he is the winner of the World Series of Poker’s main event, a man who outplayed 5,619 other wanna-be champs, gets a $7.5 million first prize and then jets off to LA for some late night conversation with Jay Leno on national television. “It’s an awesome thing, everything that’s happened,” he says, sitting in the Golden Nugget’s coffee shop on a November morning, telling a reporter what it’s been like, this leap from anonymity to being a famous face strangers stop on the street.
He shakes his head, smiling, perhaps at the crowded panorama of experiences that have filled his life since the early hours of that mid-August morning at the Horseshoe when the fin… Continue reading Player Profile… Joe Hachem 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion
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Poker slang:
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- POT - The total amount of money bet so far in a hand.
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
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